A former British speed skier described as “one of life’s indomitable
characters” today became the fourth Briton to be named amongst the dead in
last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria.

Friends have been paying tribute to Carson Bilsland, 46, from Blairgowrie, who
had been working for nearly two years as a testing technician at the BP
Statoil gas plant that was overrun by Islamist terrorists.

Abdelmalek Sellal, the Algerian Prime Minister, revealed today in his first
press briefing since Algerian soldiers stormed the plant on Saturday that
the hijack involved terrorists from several different nationalities and was
co-ordinated at the